As the Navigating Uncertainty book shows, the politics of risk are centred on calculative, technocratic control, where we assume we can predict, model and manage. A politics of uncertainty by contrast ...

has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...

The Living Off-Grid and Infrastructure Collaboration (LOGIC) launches its new website today, exploring the relationship between infrastructure, food security and nutrition across five cities in South ...

This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South- ...

IDS has partnered with Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV EAESP) on a double master’s programme, offering ...

Today’s youth generation holds a large stake in the future of sustainable agrifood systems worldwide. Youth are recognised as ...

World renowned economist, Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College ...

October 17 has been recognised as the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty by the United Nations since 1992, ...

Dr. Shandana Khan Mohmand is a social scientist whose main area of research is inequality and inclusive politics. She leads the IDS Governance research cluster, and the IDS Pakistan Hub. She is the ...

This brief provides considerations around the humanitarian and policy implications of the general food and cash assistance (GFA) prioritisation strategy in Uganda’s refugee settlements. In light of ...

When it comes to elections, narrative building can go in either direction. Three more IDS alumni discuss elections.

The relationships between energy and development are complex, compounded by increasingly differentiated situations amongst developing countries and within them. Moreover, the manner in which energy ...